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Max Rudolf Frisch ( German: [maks ˈfʁɪʃ] ⓘ; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. [1] The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten.
Homo Faber: A Report ( German: Homo faber. Ein Bericht) is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, first published in Germany in 1957. An English translation by Michael Bullock was published in Britain in 1959. The novel is written as a first-person narrative.
Max Frisch (born May 15, 1911, Zürich, Switzerland—died April 4, 1991, Zürich) was a Swiss dramatist and novelist, noted for his depictions of the moral dilemmas of 20th-century life.
Max Frisch was born in Zurich in 1911. With his childhood friends Werner Coninx and Freddo Behrmann on a skiing trip, 1929.
May 14, 2018 · The Swiss novelist and dramatist Max Frisch (1911-1991) explored the nature of human identity, individuality, and responsibility. His work is characterized by an ironic depiction of the issues confronting man in a technological society.
Apr 4, 1991 · Max Rudolph Frisch was born in 1911 in Zurich; the son of Franz Bruno Frisch (an architect) and Karolina Bettina Frisch (née Wildermuth). After studying at the Realgymnasium in Zurich, he enrolled at the University of Zurich in 1930 and began studying German literature, but had to abandon due to financial problems after the death of his father ...
May 6, 2017 · A new book has been published containing the best interviews and conversations with Max Frisch, the Swiss playwright and novelist, who died in 1991. His voice counted: even parliamentarians sat...
The Swiss author and architect Max Frisch (1911–1991) is one of the most important German-speaking authors of the 20 th century. His work, which includes novels and plays, has been translated into 47 languages and won many prizes.
Autobiographical elements and a concern with the idea of personal identity form a major part of Frisch's work, as in his best-known novel Stiller (1954; translated as I'm Not Stiller, 1958) – in which the protagonist, against all the evidence from his past, insists that he is not the person he is said to be – and also in Biographie (1967 ...
Max Frisch (1911–1991) was a Swiss novelist and playwright. Frisch’s father suddenly passed away while he was studying at the University of Zurich, and Frisch had to abandon his studies and take up a job as a journalist, thus beginning his lifelong career as a writer.
